Hello Doreen and Lisa and welcome to the discussion.
This question is for any of the panelists or list members
who wish to respond.
A recent article in the Boston Globe reported the increasing
level of sexual harassment in Boston's schools. It also
discussed the reluctance of victims of harassment to come
forward to report what had happened to them because they
felt it would make the problem worse. These victims were
concerned that they would become the targets of negative
comments or retaliation from their peers. (And in some
cases their parents did not report the harassment because
they agreed with this assessment.) Is this a common
response from students and their parents in your experience?
How do you deal with this issue?
Also, for Doreen and Lisa: could you give us some
information about the national scope of the problem? How
many sexual harassment complaints does OCR currently have?
Is this an increase over previous years? What is your
approach for resolving these cases? Does OCR use any other
method than complaints to identify schools that are not
meeting their obligations to prevent sexual harassment under
Title IX?
Thanks.
Susan
Susan J. Smith
EDEQUITY Moderator
<edequity-admin@mail.edc.org>
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